Zoroaster tenuis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Forcipulatida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Asterozoa Classis: Asteroidea Ordo: Forcipulatida

Familia: Zoroasteridae
Genus: Zoroaster
Species: Zoroaster tenuis

Name

Zoroaster tenuis Sladen, 1889

Type locality: Challenger station 218. Papua New Guinea. 2.55°S 144.066667°E / -2.55; 144.066667. Depth 1970 fms.

Holotype: BMNH 1890.5.7.661 [1].

Synonymy

• Zoroaster tenuis Sladen, 1889: 421–423, pl. 67 figs. 1–2, pl. 68 figs. 7–8; — Mah, 2007: 198.

References

• Mah, C.L. 2007. Phylogeny of the Zoroasteridae (Zorocallina; Forcipulatida): evolutionary events in deep-sea Asteroidea displaying Palaeozoic features. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 150(): 177–210. DOI: 10.1111/J.1096-3642.2007.00291.X Reference page. 
• Sladen, W.P. 1889. Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 Part 51, Zoology 30: i–xlii, 1–893. BHL Reference page.